Social capital and the target population

Scheiber, Laura

doi:10.1108/sej-05-2013-0023

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“…Additionally, three further control variables were found to have a positive impact on SE intentions. Specifically, prior experience with social problems (Comunian and Gielen, 1995; Scheiber, 2014) and female gender (Coskun et al , 2019; Ernst, 2011; Hechavarria et al , 2012) had a positive impact on SE intentions. Looking at the difference between women and men more closely using a t -test and histograms, men’s social entrepreneurial intentions are more positively distributed.…”

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“…In our decision to include prior experience with social problems, we followed Comunian and Gielen (1995), who found that an individual’s social experience influences their moral judgment. Similarly, Scheiber (2014) reported that social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro have one or more direct socioeconomic experiences, such as addressing a disparity in society, volunteering or taking part in religious, social or political activism.…”

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Connecting founder social identity with social entrepreneurial intentions

Kim

2020

SEJ

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Purpose Despite recent advances in research on antecedents of social entrepreneurial intentions, founder social identity has rarely been part of the research effort. This paper aims to investigate how different types of founder social identity affect social entrepreneurial intentions (SE intentions). Design/methodology/approach This study investigates how different types of founder social identity, such as Darwinians, Communitarians and Missionaries, affect SE intentions. Specifically, this study predicts that entrepreneurs with Darwinian identity would be less likely to form SE intentions, while those with Missionary and Communitarian identities would be more prone to form SE intentions. The hypotheses are tested on a sample of 725 individuals recruited using Amazon Mechanical Turk. Most of the hypotheses, except for Communitarian identity, are supported by the data analysis. The results contribute to the literature on founder social identity and SE intentions and demonstrate that founder social identity is one of the important antecedents of social entrepreneurial intentions. Findings Two of the hypotheses were supported by the results. Specifically, this study found a positive relation between Missionary founder social identity (its locus of self-definition is “Impersonal-We”) and social entrepreneurial intentions. This research also confirms that Darwinian founder social identity (its locus of self-definition is “I”) has a negative impact on social entrepreneurial intentions. Originality/value First, a person’s social identity has been largely overlooked in social entrepreneurship intention literature (Bacq and Alt, 2018; Hockerts, 2017; Zaremohzzabieh et al, 2019). The findings provide the empirical evidence that individual-level antecedents, especially one’s membership in a social group (i.e. social identity), exert a significant impact on the formation of SE intentions. Second, among the two types of founder social identity predicted to have a positive influence on SE intentions, only Missionary identity was found to have such a positive impact. The typical Communitarian locus of self-definition of “Personal We,” is less influential than the self-definition of the typical Missionary locus of “Impersonal We.” This might imply that not all types of feelings of belonging to a community have a positive impact on the formation and development of social entrepreneurial intentions. Finally, this study found that Darwinians are less likely to pursue social entrepreneurship although the definition of Darwinians is close to the definition of traditional entrepreneurs (e.g. profit/opportunity seekers). This may signify that the traditional concept of entrepreneurship may not be enough to explain different types of entrepreneurial motivations (e.g. social vs commercial entrepreneurship).

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Connecting founder social identity with social entrepreneurial intentions

Kim

2020

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“…There have been few studies on how SEs brought about an increase in participation of individuals by taking SE initiatives based on trust. (Scheiber, 2014). However, even such studies have focused little on trust per se in SE literature (Tack et al, 2017).…”

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Using Trust as a Resource for Social Value Creation: A Case of JanaJal

Kulshrestha

Sahay

Sengupta

2021

South Asian Journal of Business and Management Cases

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Research question: With the help of an instrumental research case on a social enterprise in India that provides a solution to those with none or limited access to fresh drinking water, this study aims to explore how trust helps create social value. Links to theory: At the theoretical level, the study draws upon ‘trust’ and ‘social value’ literature to examine how a social entrepreneur utilized trust as an enabler to creating social value. Phenomenon studied: The case developed deeper understanding of the phenomena of ‘trust helps creating social value’. Type of the case: It is an instrumental research case study that helps explore the phenomenon and draws connections between trust and social value creation if any. Case context: The case context is making affordable drinking water available to all, especially the community of people who are deprived of it. Findings: Conducting a series of in-depth interviews with the founder, we developed a better understanding of how the social entrepreneur used trust as a resource to create social value in the context of affordable drinking water. The findings showed how the protagonist (founder) worked on gaining trust of his beneficiaries and stakeholders to create social value. Findings also revealed the enablers and deterrents of trust in social value creation. Discussions: Our study shows how trust as a resource creates social value. In the context of our study, it contributes on how a social entrepreneur is creating social value not only by making affordable drinking water accessible to all but also deliver other social value creation benefits. The study brings out legitimacy, technology and social network as its enablers. The study also intends to fill the knowledge gap on how firms create social value by building trust with stakeholders and beneficiaries. Since little is known about trust even at the level of beneficiaries and stakeholders, our study aims to develop a better understanding of the phenomenon.

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“…Mair and Marti (2006) state that social capital helps social entrepreneurs relieve social problems and enter the public sphere. Scheiber (2014) finds that social capital allows social entrepreneurs to develop a better understanding of complex social problems, which results in more effective social entrepreneurship initiatives.…”

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“…Trust facilitates cooperative behavior, decreases detrimental conflict, reduces transaction costs, promotes network relations, enables swift formulation of ad hoc work groups, and promotes effective responses to crises (Rousseau, Sitkin, Burt, & Camerer, 1998); all of which are critical in social entrepreneurship efforts. Scheiber's (2014) analysis of 27 social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro found trust to be instrumental in increasing participation in social entrepreneurship initiatives, gaining access to additional members of the target population, and achieving greater levels of effectiveness and social impact. Nevertheless, very little existing social entrepreneurship literature explicitly focuses on trust.…”

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The Role of Trust in Social Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Global Brigades

Tack¹,

Simon²,

Jiang³

2017

New England Journal of Entrepreneurship

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Social entrepreneurship literature acknowledges that social capital is vital to the success of social entrepreneurship efforts and trust is integral to the process of building social capital. However, there has been limited research on trust itself in social entrepreneurship literature. This article aims to begin filling this gap by utilizing a specific social entrepreneurship initiative to illustrate the role of trust in social entrepreneurship efforts. It describes the model of trust developed by Sheppard and Sherman and the social entrepreneurship initiative, Global Brigades. The article discusses the relationships between the parties involved in the initiative and applies Sheppard and Sherman's model to these relationships. It illustrates the importance of trust to social entrepreneurship efforts, as well as the need for additional research regarding social entrepreneurship and trust.

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Social capital and the target population

Cited by 14 publications

References 22 publications

Connecting founder social identity with social entrepreneurial intentions

Connecting founder social identity with social entrepreneurial intentions

Using Trust as a Resource for Social Value Creation: A Case of JanaJal

The Role of Trust in Social Entrepreneurship: A Case Study of Global Brigades

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